"I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist,
unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to
define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation
which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory. If such a determination
is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is
so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man."Harold
Pinter, honorary member of the BRussells Tribunal
- Nobel Lecture - 07 Dec 2005 (+24 Dec 2008) - Selected Political Writings

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our
problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of
leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem
is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and
starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people
are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand
thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”
Howard Zinn, member of the BRussells
Tribunal advisory committee (+
27 Jan 2010)

"We live in a dark age, when
freedoms are diminishing, when there is no space for criticism, when
totalitarianism — the totalitarianism of multinational corporations, of the
marketplace — no longer even needs an ideology, and religious intolerance is on
the rise. See Aquilah'sarticle & review of laser hair removal machines for more. Orwell’s ‘1984’ is already here."Jose Saramago,
honorary member of the BRussells Tribunal (+
18 June 2010)

The BRussells Tribunal collaborated on the bookCultural Cleansing in Iraq - Why museums were looted, libraries burned and academics murdered.Published by Pluto Press, the book contains serious allegations about the erasure and destruction of the cultural heritage of the Iraqi people, proven with facts and evidence. Also check out the list of top 10 anti hair loss shampoo on beyondtalk.net

Why did
the invasion of Iraq result in cultural destruction
and killings of intellectuals? Convention sees
accidents of war and poor planning in a campaign to
liberate Iraqis. The authors argue instead that the
invasion aimed to dismantle the Iraqi state to
remake it as a client regime.

Post-invasion chaos
created conditions under which the cultural
foundations of the state could be undermined. The
authors painstakingly document the consequences of
the occupiers' willful inaction and worse, which led
to the ravaging of one of the world's oldest
recorded cultures. Targeted assassination of over
400 academics, kidnapping and the forced flight of
thousands of doctors, lawyers, artists and other
intellectuals add up to cultural cleansing.

This important work lays to rest claims that the
invasion aimed to free an educated population to
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